Archived blog posts (2009 to 2018) about shops on the high street and online, by North East-based retail consultant Graham Soult
Anyone who follows my blog posts will see how frequently I draw from the great resource that is local newspaper websites. With the downturn affecting...
Read more....I’ve been sorting through some of my old photos recently – for old, read ‘1990s’. Very few of them have much interest from a retail...
Read more....Though I can’t claim to make a habit of visiting six old Woolies stores in the same day (including Houghton-le-Spring, above), I have managed to build up...
Read more....By and large, Waitrose is very much in the habit of opening stores, rather than closing them – so went wrong with Waitrose’s now-closed Durham branch?
Read more....Yesterday I commented on the fact that the Millets store at MetroCentre was having a closing down sale; today, I noticed that the branch in...
Read more....I popped over to MetroCentre this afternoon, and spotted a few things that seemed worthy of blogging about. Millets: Following on from my post last...
Read more....Today’s retail news has arguably been dominated by Marks and Spencer revealing better than expected results, and Blacks Leisure (owner of Millets, as well as its...
Read more....Wandering along Newcastle’s Grainger Street yesterday afternoon, I was quite surprised to see that the old Tucci fashion store – which closed down probably several...
Read more....It certainly looks like it, according to the latest, publically available version of the Eldon Square South letting plan.[broken link removed] What’s more, it also appears...
Read more....How about SIX? Stop one is High Street in Redcar, where the former Woolworths store has recently become a branch of the Yorkshire Trading Company....
Read more....Walking through Newcastle’s Bigg Market area last Sunday, I was interested to see that part of the William Hill bookmaker’s fascia appeared to have dropped off,...
Read more....When I remarked a couple of weeks ago that Newcastle’s “Monument Mall would surely welcome the arrival of a strong anchor store” following the closure...
Read more....Regular readers may recall my post from last month, where I queried how the former East of England Co-op department stores might be rebranded following their takeover...
Read more....With Britain’s high streets having to work hard to survive – let alone thrive – in the current downturn, I was pleased to read about an initiative here...
Read more....With so many old Woolworths sites being taken over by familiar high street names and pound shops, it’s nice when the new arrival is something a...
Read more....It looks like the pace of Woolworths stores finding new occupants may be picking up, with more than twenty new announcements since I last blogged...
Read more....I was interested to read on This is Money a few days ago that Claire Robertson of Wellworths fame is apparently in talks with “unnamed venture...
Read more....There have been a few more announcements of new occupants for old Woolworths stores over the last couple of weeks: Alnwick: M&Co – full story...
Read more....When I wrote about Vergo Retail’s recent acquisitions a few days ago, it brought to mind the photographs that I took back in February this year...
Read more....Perhaps it’s a reflection of my status as a retail nerd that one of the first things I usually do on Friday mornings is check...
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